Rufus Wainwright Quotes - Page 3

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• Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.

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  Moon, Needs, World

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• My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.

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  Looks, I Smile, Cheeks

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• Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.

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  Soul, Monsters

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• I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.

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  Crush, Mom, Song

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• Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself

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  Light, Far Away, Curse

  Song: Bitter Tears, Album: Out of the Game, 2012

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• But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

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  Wall, Biblical, Thinking

  Song: Jericho, Album: Out of the Game, 2012

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• I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson

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  Thinking, Sids, Vicious

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• One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go

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  Dad, Glasses, Piano

  Song: Montauk, Album: Out of the Game, 2012

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• I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

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  Believe, Needs, World

  Song: Zebulon, 2010

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• I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

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  Boys, Addiction, Terrible

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• And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

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  Dream, Blind, Left Behind

  Song: The Dream

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• In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

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  Believe, Winning, Evil

  "Nowt as queer as folk" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2003.

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• I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

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  Song, Miracle, Healthy

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• In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

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  Heart, Knack, Lines

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• Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

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  Thinking, America, Want

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• When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

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  Mother, Song, Father

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• I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

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  Numbers, Dying, Truth Is

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• One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Ego

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• The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

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  Inspiration, Artist, Singers

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• When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

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  Trying, World, Jazz

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• Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.

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  Jobs, Real, Wife

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• I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.

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  Children, Nuts, Evil

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• I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

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  Song, Thinking, Focus

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• I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

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  Believe, Age, Alive

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• I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

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  Art, Worry, Hook

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